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Mandorla 2022 - My Experience

4/12/2022

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I was pleased 

I thought I'd share this chapter of my art career.
You see, I achieved a long-held dream by entering a painting in Mandorla 2022, the national religious biennale art award. 
Visit website https://mandorlaart.com/2022-mandorla-art-award/ for background, and to see some exquisite art.  Here's my entry “Yesterday, today, tomorrow.  The oracle has spoken”​
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This was my submission
 Tell us about the work you are entering.
Climate change accelerated. 2019-20 Australia responded with Black Summer Fires.  Our tired, worn-out Earth. 2020 Covid came like an oracle. The world went quiet. Industrialisation ceased. Earth took a monumental deep breath as carbon pollution paused bringing starlit skies and views of the Himalayas. Nature sang. An opportunity for metamorphosis, where Earthlings contemplate spiritual mysteries and rebirth.  A chrysalis emerging as a butterfly.  Our dwindled botany reaches to a bush butterfly.
 
Tell us about you and your arts practice.
When Covid struck, the go-go world went quiet. It was curious the way my mind freed as commitments dissolved, leaving delicious time for my art. I watched and painted migrating shorebirds. I’m a naturalist and conservationist. I walked forests and beaches.
​My art is realistically contemplative. I’ve a passion and philosophical perspective for the beauty in our natural world. I‘m inspired by sunlight on water, stars, the moon, shadows, birdsong and the less explored places. 
www.suekalab.com

It brought a smile to my face when I finished this work and its complex, concise writing with its story.  I'm a firm believer there is a Higher Power, that Intelligence which created the universe and share this view with native cultures world-wide. 
​It makes me happy to have achieved this painting but I do wish it could help bring healing to our planet Earth.

Almost 300 entries submitted from across Australia, and 42 selected. So, I stand with 250 others and know I am not alone in being disappointed.   A silver lining to this particular cloud is that I can share this with you
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